Peer support is vital for building disabled people’s confidence, positive identity and collective voice. GDA has supported a wealth of peer groups to develop and thrive within our membership, reflecting the diversity of Glasgow’s disabled people and ensuring safe supportive spaces where voices and collective identity can flourish.
Our Voices networks bring together our members to build skills, confidence and connections, using their collective voice to influence and make real change for disabled people in Glasgow and beyond.
Including:
- GDA’s Drivers for Change – over 200 members dedicating extra time and energy to speaking out, campaigning and collaborating for change
- GDA’s Social Care Expert Group – over 100 members who need or use social care using their experience and expertise to fix Scotland’s broken social care system
- GDA’s Young Disabled People and Young Drivers for Change Network – a network to build skills, confidence and peer support to enable young disabled people’s voices to influence change.
- GDA’s BAME Network – a dedicated safe space to build skills, build connections and amplify the voices, experience and expertise of BAME disabled people in Glasgow
- GDA’s LGBT Network – a dedicated safe space for peer support for LGBT disabled people in Glasgow
